City of Greater Geelong Hiring for Manager, Business Transformation at Geelong, Victoria, Australia Full Time

In this role, you will establish an inclusive and collaborative internal service delivery model that triages, designs, and oversees transformation projects and improvement activities and enables teams across the City to identify and improve their ways of working autonomously.

Work type: Permanent, full-time

Key responsibilities include:

• Engage and collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure that business transformation programs and activities are systemic in nature and are designed to meet specific needs and outcomes.
• Develop departmental capabilities to meet the requirements of its future strategic goals.
• Design and implement the business improvement and organisation design internal service delivery models including triage process, user friendly tools and templates, and appropriate governance policies and procedures.
• Lead the identification and or creation of organisation-wide lateral processes in collaboration with Senior Leadership and their teams.
• Design, package and oversee business transformation programs, projects, and activities to achieve strategic priorities and improve organisation performance and effectiveness.
• Establish, embed, and oversee an inclusive and collaborative approach to business-as-usual organisational transformation and continuous improvement.
• Develop and integrate the department’s initiatives and annual business plans in line with the Directorate strategy, balancing value for our community and customers within the financial, social, environmental and resource constraints.
• Manage all aspects of the department’s resources and budget planning for effective operations; regularly tracking and ing on performance against departmental goals.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have demonstrated transformation project leadership experience that deliver quality outputs, within tight deadlines and budget.

Essential Experience:

• A tertiary qualification in Business Management or Administration and/or significant professional experience in overseeing business transformation and/or improvement activities in a comparable organisation.
• Demonstrated senior leadership experience with people management skills to support, influence and foster a productive team culture.
• Accomplished negotiation, writing, presentation and public speaking skills to influence stakeholders and achieve support for department outcomes.
• Demonstrated skills in business planning and management, budget development, financial and resource management, and complex ing in accordance with strategic goals and KPIs.
• Proven track of leading teams through change ensuring strong stakeholder engagement throughout the process.
• Expert knowledge and practice in improving organisational effectiveness through a multi-disciplinary approach leveraging continuous improvement and design mindsets and methods.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to an organisation at both the strategic and operational level.

The health and safety of our people is our highest priority. It is our current policy to ask for your COVID-19 vaccination status. You have the right not to disclose your vaccination status, and successful candidates who are not vaccinated or do not want to disclose will go through a simple risk assessment process.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong

At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we’ve built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

A career with us

Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.

We offer:

• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning

Applications and Enquiries

Click the Position Description link to view more information about this position.

Enquiries: Talitha Donovan | Chief Transformation Officer | [email protected]

Click the Apply button to submit your application or find out more about this opportunity. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at [email protected] noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.

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To obtain a copy of the position description, please visit https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/employment/default.aspx